Sri Srinivaasa Vaibhavam- Thirumangai AzhwAr. anubhavam Periya Thirumozhi 1.9.6

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SrI:

SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya namah:

Dearest all,

 

Let us continue to enjoy Thirumangai AzhwAr’s Periya

Thirumozhi.

 

kalayaami kalidhvamsam kavim lOkadhivaakaram

yaSya kObi: prakaaSaabir aavidhyam niHatham thama:

 

I meditate on the Poet, who is like the Sun for the

whole world, to destroy the darkness of ignorance

(a~jnAnam) with his word and who destroys the Kali

dhOsham.

 

mannaaynNeererikaal maNYchulaavumaagaasamumaam,

puNNaaraakkaithannuL

pulambitthaLarnNdheytthozhinNdhEn,

viNNaarnNeeLsigara viraiyaarthiruvEngkadavaa!,

aNNaa! vanNdhadainNdhEn adiyEnaiyaatkoNdaruLE.

1.9.6

 

Oh Lord of ThiruvEmkatam, where tall sky scraper

mountains are there! I have been terribly trapped in

this body composed of five senses, sense organs, red

water (blood), pus, bones, flesh, hair, foul smelling

wounds on this physical body, etc.., and I am remorse

with tears, thinning down and grieving heavily. adiyEn

now has reached You. Please save me and take me over

to You as Your eternal servant.

 

The five elements, prithvai, ap, thejas, vaayu and

asskaasam [five elements] constitute our bodies. That

is what AzhwAr refers to. Not just that. This body

also consists of pus, blood, bones, skin, flesh, hairs

etc… dirt, sewage, and rot… .

 

This jeevan is housed in such a body and having

associated myself with the body, I have been suffering

so much… thinking that it was enjoyment.

This is imilar to putkavvak kidakkinreerae- pasuram by

ThoNdaradippodi AzhwAr. [given below is the

translation on this most wonderful pasuram of

Thirumalai-6 by Srimathi Sumithra Varadarajan from Sri

periya Vacchaan Pillai commentary]

 

puramsuvar Ottai mAdam puralumpOdu ariyamAtteer: when

the body which is a house with holes is shed down you

will not know what to do says alwar. Alwar here

attributes the body to be a house which has a wall

outside but with number of holes(puramsuvar Ottai

mAdam). Even thirumangai alwar describes a human body

as a 9 holed house. The soul stays in this house.

Again it is not a permanent house for the soul. We do

not know from where we came and where we will go. But

in the intermediate time we consider the house to be

ours and we take upmost care of it. Like a house

built of cement, this body is a house built of flesh.

Thirumangai alwar explains this excellently.

?Oonidaisuvarvaiththu enbhuthoon nAtti orOmam vaidhu

onbhadhu vAsal thAnudai kurumbhai?(periya thirumozhi

1-6-9). The house(body) is made of flesh, to give a

shape to the structure the flesh is supported by

pillars of bones and to protect the flesh it is

covered with hair and the house has 9 holes. When we

know that we are supposed to vacat

Narayanan can grant us moksham. When our house is

very old we try to renew or reconstruct it. If it is

in a very bad condition then we prefer to go to a new

house. Similarly we have taken birth after births and

lived very long in this bhoolokam so it is high time

that we shift over to the new sweet home the

vaikundam, which never becomes worn out or old.

 

Alwar says that when we are in the last bed we will

not know who to call for help.

 

Even our very close relatives or friends cannot help

us, they will rather cry due to inability. The

doctors who have tried their level best will say, rest

left to god. But all through the life we havent

believed in him and we have never gone to his temple

with a small tulasi garland. Then how will the belief

suddenly come in the last moment and how can a person

think of him in his death bed? That is why we have to

do it now itself(when we are young and capable of

worshipping him). Think the perumai of the bhagavan

and meditate on his nAmas. But what we actually do?

Alwar continues saying.

 

aramsuvarAgi nindra aranganArkku AtsaiyAdhe:

Emperuman is dharma swarropan.?Dharma yoni

janardhanaha:? ?rAmam dharma sanAthanam? ?Dharma

samstappanaya? ?Dharmasya prabhu: achutaha:? are

various verses which say that emperuman is a symbol of

dharma. He has been our saviour always. When we help

our fellow people they forget it very soon. But

emperuman never forgets when we do a dharma and look

for the enjoyment in his face. Even though whatever

service we do to the lord is not at all necessary for

him still he adds one credit to us for each good deed.

Even though he is filled with so much karunyam and is

waiting to be called to help us out still we prefer to

call the less capable persons and suffer rather than

calling him and enjoying the divine bliss. That is

why alwar says aranganArkku AtsaiyAdhe. Only for the

sake of we humans he came from his divine aboard the

srivaikundam and settled in Sri rangam to come to our

call without any delay but then we never go near him

or call him inspite of innumerabl

 

puramsuvar kOlamsaidhu putkavvakedakkindreerE: we do

not surrender to the lord but we are busy decorating

our body. We put on so many cosmetics and scent

ourselves to make our body appealing to others. But

we lack to think that one day this body will fall and

no one will want to come near it. We put so much

make-up and then we wear a variety of dresses and

jewels to make us beautiful. Then the youth passes

and then comes old age when all our beauty vanishes

and the same persons who appreciated the beauty once,

now criticize it. Finally comes death. Can the

person who admired our body now keep it for more than

a day or two? No. Even our closest of the closest

now get ready to bury or burn the body. The father

gets ready to burn the body of the son, the wife sees

the body of her husband burn down. This is the sad

state of any body. But still for this temporary

period we want to decorate it and spend money and time

for its beautification. If we think a little bit we

will know what a waste of time and taking in the

actual sense).

 

Thirumangai AzhwAr ThiruvaDigaLe SaraNam

Regards

Namo Narayana

dAsan

 

 

 

 

 

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